What more is there to say about Willow Street (I’ve said and written it all before), except other than know what I liked the most about Willow Street? Weeping as though it may have been, Willow knew what it was, OK. Always. And everyone around it, los unos y los otros, any who ever was […]
Isn’t it high time that this neighborhood that lives so on the edge of renewed vibrancy get a make-over and a new name that’s not predicated on once-upon-a-time stories about police corruption? OMGwyneth, have I tried. I remember it all too well. We were in one of dem double-decker tour buses that traverse the town […]
Listen to your elders, kids. They’ve been around the block rather quite a few more times. And they have all the stories. I met a wise woman named M.J. last week, at the second meeting of the recently assembled San Francisco Street-Level Drug-Dealing Task Force. Look into that, too, OK. Btw, what…a beautiful room that […]
How about instead of allowing this condition to fester (this situation in which people in need have to steal from others to try and sell the loot out in the open and often in plain view of driving-by SFPD and passersby that include our elected and appointed city leadership), how ’bout we get it together […]
I spoke to the press tonight (a neighbor and I did), to an awesome crew of broadcast journalists from KTVU FOX2 led by Jana Katsuyama, about the situation on Willow Street, the notorious alley about which I’ve previously written (without naming it because, y’ know, security). My weeping Willow. Five years I’ve seen that street […]
If you see something, San Francisco, then, by all means, fucking say or do something. Earlier this evening, a man was picked up by a team of first responders from right outside a Van Ness Avenue cell-phone store, to be taken to the hospital, probably to die, possibly to live. I hope he lives. I […]
Six Seven more of our transgender family and friends have been murdered in this country since I 🎧➡️ asserted my Pride a few weeks ago in June, when I first wrote about Dana Martin, 31; Jazzaline Ware, age N/A; Ashanti Carmon, 27; Claire Legato, 21; Muhlaysia Booker, 23; Michelle “Tamika” Washington, 40; Paris Cameron, 20; […]
Dear Neighbors, It’s sooo easy. Easy as one, two, one, two. All you actually gotta do is get involved. Actually, properly involved. Marchin’ and donatin’ and commiseratin’ online are all fine things to do, but you gotta walk the talk. Otherwise that shit will stew. Take it from me. The sad story I see unfolding […]
This happened three weeks ago tomorrow – but it may as well have happened last night or it may as well happen tonight. One for the books, I tell ya. One of my cousins was in town from L.A. for work, so we agreed to meet for burgers on Fillmore. He was staying in the bubble […]
